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Canadian wildfires

What is to blame for Canadian wildfires that are causing air quality problems in the US ?


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Where's the 'Trump' option?!
I feel like expressing my TDS at the moment.
 
My grandson plays college football in MI. and I follow the weather. Everyday lately there seems to be an air alert from the Ca. fires. I don't think he notices, tbh.

I live in Michigan and it's definitely been noticeable here. Noticeably brown/yellow skies particularly within a couple hours of sunrise and sunset.
 


What is to blame is nature.

Mother nature if you like.

Wildfires are natures way of renewing a forest. They MUST happen or the forest will die.
Both the flames and the heat have a benefit. As the floor burns the nutrients are released into the soil and what Trump would want "rake" is started on the road to nutrient rich compost. The the outer bark of the tree is scorched opening sap flow to new areas, and the seeds hanging on the trees and in the ground are opened to be able to grow. (Many evergreens NEED fire to open the cones or the forest dies)

In British Columbia we deliberately set fires across huge acreages to 'release nutrients and seeds' for the continued growth.

Forest fires are only a problem when a logging company's assets are going up in smoke and or it threatens communities of people who were warned NOT to build there.

I'm on the side of the fires.

Having see one as close as anyone would ever want to get, the only thing I can utter is "holy Jesus ****! RUN!"
 
Just out of curiosity, what’s an odd black bear? Is it brown, not black? Are its eyes crossed and have webbed feet? Are they mutants?
 
You forgot Jewish Space Lasers.
 
Did you know there are white black bears?



Careful my friend.

That is more than a little argumentative here.

Are they brown bears discolored or mutants? Or are they a race of bear unto themselves?

No less than nine universities (all white) have joined the fray and are making noise about "classification; etc. Meanwhile there are a few thousand native rights organizations pointing out most of those bears live on native land. Which is technically a foreign country from Canada.

Canada's natives have said 'hands off' and won't even allow white research. Have told the colleges to go study cockroaches.
 
Just out of curiosity, what’s an odd black bear? Is it brown, not black? Are its eyes crossed and have webbed feet? Are they mutants?
Black bears exhibit a range of colors beyond the typical black, including brown, cinnamon, blond, blue-gray, and even white. While black is most common east of the Great Plains, westward populations show higher frequencies of brown, cinnamon, and blond color phases. Specific locations, like the coast of British Columbia, are known for their white-phase black bears, also called Kermode or spirit bears
 
It's Canuck. I blame it on the Lunes. I will not apologize.
 


What I have read is that "Kamode" or "Spirit bear" is a distinct species unto itself existing only in a narrow range on the British Columbia coast and islands.

"Black" bears here change color through the season and can range from blonde to black in one season.

And it appears some have stopped hibernating which has caused a lot of concern.
 
Got to thinking about Canadian woods, looked it up. Canada has slightly under 1,000,000 square miles of forest. That's square MILES, not acres........ miles. If you put those miles in a line you could drive to the moon an back ......... twice ........ on a road 1 mile wide.
 
I so wish we wouldn't have to discuss this. I also wish we wouldn't make the suffering of people and wildlife political.
 
20% of the worlds fresh water, minerals, lumber, huge agricultural land, cheap electricity, more oil reserves than anyone not in OPEC, and about 40,000,000 people.
Futures so bright, we gotta wear shades.
 
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